Re: Best Apple II publication of all time

[garygray@monastery.tiac.net (Gary Gray)]

In article <41nhk0$iv1@opal.southwind.net>,
   shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>Path: 
sundog.tiac.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.
sprintlink.net!southwind.net!onyx!shack

>I have to say Softalk was the best ever. Unless you mean Apple II only of
>course. It was published from Sept '80 to August '84, and covered every Apple
>machine there was in that time, II's, III's, Lisas, Macs. 

My favorite Apple 2 magazine (I think it was specifically Apple 2... anyway,
they mostly delt with Apple 2 programming) was an offshoot of Softalk
called Softline. This magazine covered games exclusivly. There were the 
reviews, and the industry news, and programming columns about games... I still 
remember The Amazing Maze in 3D and the series about writing adventure games
(it inspired me to write the most clever program I think I've ever written,
which is both good and sad to say... a full sentence parser for adventure 
games... all written in Applesoft).

Boy... I loved it when those magazines showed up... *sigh* such a pity it 
ended all too soon... perhaps I would have been inspired to live out my goal 
to be a games programmer, then ;)




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